Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1 - Grains (Board on Science and Technology for International Development , 1996)

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Notice

Panel

Staff

Contributors

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

1. African Rice

2. Finger Millet

3. Fonio (Acha)

4. Pearl Millet

5. Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types

7. Sorghum

8. Sorghum: Subsistence Types

9. Sorghum: Commercial Types

10. Sorghum: Specialty Types

11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types

12. TEF

13. Other Cultivated Grains

14. Wild Grains

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

Appendix G

Appendix H

Appendix I

The BOSTID Innovation Program

Appendix I

Lost Crops of Africa Series

This is the first in a series of books highlighting the promise to
be found in food plants native to Africa. The second and third volumes in the
series are now being prepared for publication, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth
are in the planning stage. Following are lists of the plants now being
considered.

We hope that this set of reports will alert everyone to the wealth
of foods that are Africa's own heritage. We also hope to continue the series
with volumes on nuts, oilseeds, spices, beverage plants' and others.
Collectively, the resulting wealth of knowledge and guidance might well lead to
a "second front" in the war on hunger in what is now the most hunger-ravaged
part of the world.

We would very much like to hear from readers who would like to
contribute to these future volumes. Send your name and the crop in which you're
interested to: